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Countries

Countries
Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru

Total No. Of Countries
6 9

National Language
Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents
South America

Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By
-

Interesting Facts
  • One of the most widely spoken indigenous language in the America is Quechua.
  • Quechua language has borrowed many words from Spanish.

Similar To
Aymara and Guarani Languages

Derived From
-

Alphabets

Alphabets in
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Alphabets
31 13

Phonology

How Many Vowels
5 2

How Many Consonants
26 16

Scripts
Latin

Writing Direction
-

Hard to Learn

Language Levels
6 5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks 17

Greetings

Hello
Rimaykullayki

Thank You
Solpayki

How Are You?
Allillanchu

Good Night
Allin tuta

Good Evening
Wuynas nuchis

Good Afternoon
Wuynas tardis

Good Morning
Wuynus diyas

Please
jamuspa

Sorry
Pampachaykuway

Bye
bye

I Love You
Kuyayki

Excuse Me
Pampachaway

Dialects

Dialect 1
Ancash

Where They Speak
Peru

How Many People Speak
920,000.00 62

Dialect 2
Huánuco

Where They Speak
Peru

How Many People Speak
190,000.00 75

Dialect 3
Yaru

Where They Speak
Peru

How Many People Speak
150,000.00 63

Total No. Of Dialects
10 10

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
8.90 million 58

Speaking Population
0.13 % 54

Native Speakers
8.90 million 48

Second Language Speakers
8.00 million 44

Native Name
Qhichwa

Alternative Names
North La Paz Quechua

French Name
quechua

German Name
Quechua-Sprache

Pronunciation
[ˈketʃwa]

Ethnicity
Quechua

History

Origin
16th Century

Language Family
Quechumaran Family

Subgroup
Andean Equatorial

Branch
-

Language Forms

Early Forms
No early forms

Standard Forms
Quechua

Language Position
23 21

Signed Forms
Signed Quechua

Scope
Macrolanguage

Code

ISO 639 1
qu

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T
que

ISO 639 2/B
que

ISO 639 3
que

ISO 639 6
que

Glottocode
quec1387

Linguasphere
No data Available

Types of Language

Language Type
Living

Language Linguistic Typology
-

Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic

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Know Alphabets in Quechua

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Quechua Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Quechua Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Quechua. Quechua phonology gives Quechua vowels and Quechua consonants. There are 5 vowels and 26 consonants in Quechua language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Quechua is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Quechua language is given in detail in this section.

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All Quechua countries

Want to explore all Quechua countries? About Quechua language serves you with all Quechua Speaking Countries. Countries that use Quechua as official language are called as Quechua countries.

  • Countries that use Quechua as their National Language are: Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Quechua as second language are: Quechua is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

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Learn Quechua greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Quechua Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Quechua language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Quechua language.Learn Quechua greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: Rimaykullayki
  • Thank you: Solpayki
  • Good Morning: Wuynus diyas
  • Good Evening: Wuynas nuchis
  • Good Afternoon: Wuynas tardis

All Quechua Language Codes

Get to know all Quechua language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Quechua Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.

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